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These pictures were taken by a KTBS helicopter flying over Lake Weiss about 90 miles north of Birmingham, Alabama!  The helicopter pilot and the game warden were in communication via radio.  Here is a transcript of their conversation:

 

'Air1 - have you a visual on the gator, over.'

 

'Approaching inlet now, over.'

 

'Roger Air1.'

 

'Gator sighted ... Looks like it has a small animal in its mouth ...  moving in, over.'

 

'Roger Air1.'

 

'Holy Crap it's a deer!' '

 

Confirm Air1..  did you say deer? - Over.'

 

'Roger..  a Deer in its mouth ... looks like a full sized buck ... that's a big gator, were gonna need more men, Over.'

 

'Roger Air1 ...can you give me a idea on size of animal, over.'

 

'Its big, 25 feet at least, please advise - gator is heading to inlet ...do I pursue?, over.'

 

The deer was later found to be a mature stag and was measured at 11 feet.  Are you ready to go skiing on Lake Weiss?  If you ski at the west end of the lake -- try not to fall.

 

 

This alligator was found between Centre and Leesburg, Alabama near a house!  Game wardens were forced to shoot the alligator - guess he wouldn't cooperate.  Anita and Charlie Rogers could hear the bellowing in the night.  Their neighbors had been telling them that they had seen a mammoth alligator in the waterway that runs behind their house, but they dismissed the stories as exaggerations.  'I didn't believe it,' Charles Rogers said, but they realized the stories were, if anything, understated.

 

Alabama Parks and Wildlife game wardens had to shoot the beast.  Joe Goff, 6'5' tall, a game warden, walks past the 28-foot, 1-inch alligator (8.5 meters) he shot and killed in their back yard.